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Automation Engineer

Employer
Rio Tinto
Location
Invercargill, Southland, NZ
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Jun 19, 2022

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Category
Computer etc., Engineering
Work Term
Permanent
Work Load
Full Time
Language
English

Job Details

AUTOMATION ENGINEER
  • Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
  • Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
  • Well respected position seen as a technical expert on site
  • Tiwai Point, New Zealand

About the role

We are looking for an analyst, programmer, or software focused Automation Engineer to join our team at New Zealand Aluminium Smelters. You will play a key role in developing and improving automation, control systems applications and our ICT infrastructure across site.

This is a great opportunity to broaden your skills and make a personal impact. You will work on a variety of exciting new projects and manage day to day challenges that will require an inquisitive and collaborative approach.

Reporting to the Superintendent Automation & Control Systems and working in a supportive and forward-thinking environment, you will be:
  • Developing and improving automation and control systems application layer and supporting ICT infrastructure, including interfaces between the control and SCADA/HMI layers, and information systems such as databases, historians, analysis tools and manufacturing execution systems.
  • Supporting and developing the site SCADA fleet and equipment HMIs.
  • Conducting and managing business sustaining work such as obsolete control system hardware replacement or software conversion and upgrades
  • Providing technical advice and assistance to site maintenance, engineering and operational teams
  • Providing second level breakdown support, including after-hours call out roster participation to maintenance and operations teams.
  • Improving existing process and equipment control systems to increase efficiency

We are an open, connected international team of technical specialists using some of the most exciting data and tools on the planet. We are the world leader in automation and smart mining. We have technical development programmes that are industry-leading and recognise the unique nature of your role. These provide opportunities to grow your career through a dedicated technical path while being rewarded for your unique skills

What you'll bring
  • A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
  • Relevant experience working in either automation, data analysis, application and/or database development
  • Degree qualified in Information Technology, Computer Science, Electrical, Mechatronic or Automation Engineering. Relevant technical experience will be considered
  • A good working knowledge of PLC programming
  • Ability to fault find and hands-on trouble-shooting skills

Desirable
  • Networking and industrial protocol experience
  • Demonstrated application development experience using VBA, Python, SQL and SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services and Power BI.

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls 'progress' begins witha first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers - generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium - the world's first to be certified 'responsible' - helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe.

Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you will be working

Based at Tiwai Point in New Zealand's south, NZAS makes aluminium with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the world, and it is the only aluminium smelter to produce ultra-high purity metal using renewable hydroelectricity. Receiving the majority of its alumina from our Yarwun and Queensland Alumina Limited refineries in Gladstone, Australia, the smelter produces more than 335,000 tonnes of aluminium each year.

In January 2021, NZAS reached a new electricity agreement which will extend operations to December 2024. By joining us now, we will set you up for the future. Work is already underway to reskill and retrain our people, with skills transferrable to other industries.

For more information at working with NZAS visit: https://tiwaistories.co.nz/

Company

We are curious and creative, ingenious and hard-working. We are pioneers – exploring the boundaries of everything we do. The materials we produce are essential to human progress, and we see that progress driven by our people. Working at Rio Tinto means touching people’s lives: from exploring new materials to finding ways to tackle climate change. 

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. And we want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. 

Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

Company info
Website
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Rio Tinto
Telephone
+44 20 7781 2000
Location
6 St James's Square
London
London
SW1Y 4AD
Australia

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